Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 186 Chapter 180 Three Can’t you just be a bit thoughtful?

As soon as Wang Daoqiu came out of the tomb, everyone started to move the things out of the tomb.While moving the belongings in the tomb out, Jin Yiwei went outside to organize the ox cart.

One night three days later, 97 oxcarts covered with canvas drove into Jinyiwei's secret base.Here Wang Daoqiu, Li Qianshi, and Feng Bao each brought a few of their own cronies. After driving everyone else out, they themselves unpacked the boxes and took inventory.

After a busy night, the wealth was finally calculated.Taking the list, Wang Daoqiu first asked his four guards and Li Qianshi and Feng Bao's cronies to go out. Then he announced to Li Qianshi and Feng Bao: "Not counting those house deeds that have become useless paper." Land deeds, rotten fur coats and medicinal materials. This time, a total of 79 taels of horseshoe gold were obtained; a total of 700 six large gold ingots of 1000 taels each were converted into gold of 560 taels; and a total of 56 taels each. There are 98 small gold ingots, which can be converted into 71 taels of gold; there are 54 small silver ingots, and 930 silver can be converted into [-] million taels of silver."

“玉如意970柄；珍珠手串320串；如荔枝大小的大珍珠三十颗；大红宝石140块；大蓝宝石230块；金碗碟共四千280八件；银碗碟一千820四件；珊湖树27株；宋代官窑名贵瓷器一千九百件；高一尺二寸，长四尺的玉马一匹；白玉观音像34尊；汉玉寿星23尊；金罗汉81尊；玉汤碗530一只，白玉酒杯120只；水晶杯120只；金镶玉箸二百副，金镶象箸二百副。另外还有元以前的名家字画五千530幅，宋砚二百方，端砚九百余方，古剑42把。”

"There are too many things. If they are all converted into silver, Kong Hongtai is not bragging. This can indeed be worth my treasury income for the ten years of the Ming Dynasty. Okay, you two, let's discuss what to do with these things next! "

Wang Daoqiu finished the final list. Li Qianshi and Feng Bao were not surprised that there were so many things. After all, they had just participated in tearing the seals and unpacking and counting.

After Wang Daoqiu finished speaking, Feng Bao spoke first: "This time, the master's favor only requires gold, jade and some precious calligraphy and paintings. The rest will be divided by you, Grand Tutor, together with Eunuch Lu and Governor Lu. Now Eunuch Lu and Governor Lu Even if Governor Lu is not here, it is up to the Tutor to decide how to divide these things."

"Yes, yes, Master Taifu, just tell us how to divide it. Eunuch Feng and I will listen to you."

Since Feng Bao had said it all, Emperor Jiajing meant that besides the gold, jade, and precious calligraphy and paintings, he should be the owner.Wang Daoqiu, Lu Fang, and Lu Bing discussed how to divide other things.But now that Feng Bao and Li Qian are asking Wang Daoqiu to divide things here, what they want to divide is definitely not a big account, but a small account that should be divided.

Understanding the thoughts of these two people, Wang Daoqiu also likes the beauty of adulthood.So Wang Daoqiu said: "I see it this way. The Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi who followed us into the mountains this time will be rewarded 500 taels of silver each, and the small flag, general banner, and hundred households will be rewarded 300 taels more each level. The other one who found Qingyun Watch the tomb robber Zhou Hai, reward him with 1000 taels of silver, and ask Governor Lu to absolve him of his crime, and leave him to serve in the Jinyi Guards. This man has real skills, and we will definitely have somewhere to use him in the future. Fuck him."

"Yes, sir. After escorting the things back to Beijing this time, I will convey your wishes to our Governor Lu."

After hearing Wang Daoqiu's announcement and rewarding Jin Yiwei and Dongchang who were involved in the matter, especially a heavy reward for the tomb robber Zhou Hai, Li Qianshi came back in a hurry to respond.

And when Li Qian finished agreeing, Wang Daoqiu went on to say: "Those things that the emperor wants, the three of us will get 1 taels of gold each. In addition, let's take the things that the emperor doesn't want, such as the jade Guanyin of the Buddhist family, the Hanyu birthday star , Jin Luohan, divided into ten shares, Lu Gonggong and Lu Dudu will each share three shares, I will share two shares, and each of you will share one share. There are also more than 5000 calligraphy and paintings, choose one thousand good ones and give them to the emperor, and the rest The same is divided into ten shares. Lu Gonggong and Lu Dudu will share three shares, I will share two shares, and you will each share one share. In addition, I will give each of you an extra 3 taels of silver and a set of gold and silver dishes. fee."

It can be said that Wang Daoqiu's division is very generous to Li Qianshi and Feng Bao.After all, you, Li Qian, are in Jinyiwei, and now you are only a fourth-rank officer, and Feng Bao is now only the third in command in Dongchang.Just the two of them now, in front of Wang Daoqiu, the emperor's favourite, are not enough to look at at all.Wang Daoqiu doesn't give them a dime now, and they don't dare to say anything on the face.

But now Wang Daoqiu basically puts them on an equal footing to share money, letting Feng Bao and Li Qian do things, which is both face and benefit.The two of them were now extremely grateful to Wang Daoqiu, and they knelt down and began to kowtow to Wang Daoqiu.

After dividing the small account with Li Qianshi and Feng Bao, the three of them went out and called their cronies in. They divided the gold and silver among the cronies, and then they began to divide their shares.

The next day, Wang Daoqiu, Li Qianshi, and Feng Bao each escorted a boat full of harvest and sailed to Beijing.

As soon as the fleet arrived at Tongzhou Pier, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang Fanzi, who had already received news that they were waiting here, hurriedly boarded the ship, repackaged the treasures with seals, and moved them off the ship.

It didn't matter that the bulk was moved slowly. Wang Daoqiu asked Jin Yiwei to first move the more than 120 million taels of gold, as well as hundreds of boxes of jade, calligraphy and paintings that were to be given to Emperor Jiajing, onto the carriage and send them back to the city.

With the portion that should be given to Emperor Jiajing, Wang Daoqiu asked someone to inform Lu Bing that they would meet at the gate of Xiyuan.Then he led a large group of troops to Xiyuan.

When he arrived at Xiyuan Gate, Lu Bing was already waiting for him there.As soon as Lu Bing saw Wang Daoqiu, he walked towards the Xiyuan with Wang Daoqiu, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Liangzhen, how many did you do this time?"

"See for yourself." As he spoke, Wang Daoqiu took out a list from his sleeve. He later rewrote the list and handed it to Lu Bing.Lu Bing took the list and looked at it. Hey, he was shocked. He suppressed his excitement and asked in a low voice: "There are so many? I just saw it. There are more than 120 million taels of gold and 390 million taels of silver." More than ten thousand taels, how come there are so many?"

"To be honest with Brother Donghu, this list was revised by me. For example, the gold actually contains more than 170 million taels, and the silver actually contains more than 930 million taels. Anyway, this list is for the emperor to see. In fact, The things were counted by my little brother, Li Qianshi from Jinyiwei, and Eunuch Feng from Dongchang. You can ask Li Qianshi for the real list later."

"What, this list is fake? Brother Xian, you are really brave. If the emperor finds out about this, he won't skin you!"

Hearing Wang Daoqiu say that this list was a kickback, Lu Bing was shocked by Wang Daoqiu's boldness and didn't know what to say to Wang Daoqiu.

At this time, Wang Daoqiu also despised Lu Bing for acting as if he had never deceived Emperor Jiajing.He said coldly: "Brother Donghu, what belongs to you, you, yours! It should be us. And those things, when we found them, they were all sealed with the Kong family seal. I didn't let them remove them at the scene. I waited until the shipment came back, then I withdrew everyone else. My younger brother, Eunuch Feng, Li Qianshi, and our three personal guards worked together to seal and count the items. In the end, my younger brother and I did the counting, and only Li Qian was informed of the list. It’s about things with Eunuch Feng.”

"To put it bluntly, only the three of us know how much this batch of things contains. Moreover, I am in Shandong and have already given the two people 1 taels of gold, 3 taels of silver, and some antique calligraphy and paintings as sealing fees. .Besides, there is nothing we can do about it. Brother Donghu, you also know the temper of our emperor. If I write down more than 900 million taels of silver according to the truth, will he still keep his promise and give all the money to the three of us? "

Wang Daoqiu was telling the truth. Considering Emperor Jiajing's greed, if he knew that more than 900 million yuan of silver had been made this time, it would be inevitable for him to regret it.Lu Bing, as Emperor Jiajing's childhood friend and good friend, knew this very well.

So after Wang Daoqiu finished speaking, Lu Bing also said helplessly: "Brother Xian! Hey, forget it, anyway, I have already given him 120 million taels of gold alone, so he should be satisfied, so this matter How about this!"

Wealth and silk are alluring. I heard from Wang Daoqiu that I bought 50 taels of gold and 540 million taels of silver. I want one share of these gold and silver!Thinking of the gold and silver, Lu Bing no longer cared about the crime of deceiving the emperor.

The two walked into Emperor Jiajing's Wanshou Palace talking and laughing. At this time, Emperor Jiajing was practicing Taoism with Tao Zhongwen.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu coming, Emperor Jiajing made a stern face and asked Tao Zhongwen to step down first. Then he said to Wang Daoqiu in a bad tone: "You are becoming more and more lawless. The newly appointed governor of Shandong has arrived in Jinan." Waiting for you to hand over the work. But he has been waiting for you for several days, but you are nowhere to be seen, and no one knows what you are doing. No, they are delivering memorials to the court one day at a time. This morning the court meeting , the cabinet even mentioned this matter to me! How do you ask me to explain this matter to the cabinet? I can’t say that your kid is digging his grave!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Your Majesty. At that time, I received a report from Jinyiwei Li Qianshi and Dongchang Feng Gonggong, saying that they had discovered the Kong family's treasure. I was so anxious that I followed them and left, forgetting to inform the Shandong Governor's Yamen This is my negligence, and I will die."

"Okay, okay, you'll die at every turn. Don't do this to me. Tell me, how much did you do this time? If it's less, see how I deal with you."

"Your Majesty, here is the list. I have the list here."

When Emperor Jiajing asked how much he had produced this time, Lu Bing quickly handed Emperor Jiajing the list that Wang Daoqiu had just given him without Wang Daoqiu's greeting.

Emperor Jiajing took the list and looked down at more than 120 million taels of gold. At this moment, Emperor Jiajing didn't bother to look at it. He raised his head and asked Wang Daoqiu: "Wang Qing, the gold is more than 120 million taels. Is this true?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, everything has been escorted into Xiyuan. You can see it yourself now."

"Things have entered Xiyuan, so what are you waiting for? Let's go."

After speaking, Emperor Jiajing led Wang Daoqiu, Lu Bing, and Lu Fang out of the Longevity Palace to see his windfall.

(End of this chapter)